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Redemption Stone: The Life & Times of Tom Lewis
by Tom Dziedzic
Born into a dirt-poor family in a small Southern town, Tom Lewis makes his way through the world as a migrant worker, a factory laborer, a soldier, a police officer, and ultimately a community leader as he transforms a burned-out old crack house in Northeast DC into the Fishing School, turning hardship into hope for the children of his community.
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Life as a Collage
by Sitar Arts Center and Meridian Hill Pictures
Produced by seven Washington DC high school students, this film gives a local artist and beloved art teacher, Tim Gabel, a chance to reflect on life as he combats liver cancer. #LifeasaCollageDoc
Transcending Surgeon
by Sam Hampton
Dr. Edward Cornwell III is one of the top trauma surgeons in the nation. Raised in Washington DC, he now is Surgeon-in-Chief at Howard University Hospital as part of a career which he has devoted to working in communities beset by poverty, inadequate education, and violence.
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